PCOS Messages for April, 2002: Re: the deeps joys of the uk national health

Re: the deeps joys of the uk national health

From: anne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:28:27 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi, I've ranted on here recently too-- at much greater length and yup, I'm not sure who they think they are. Are you seeing a G.P or a specialist like an endocrinologist? If you are seeing a G.P for this, you need to get a referral, as even a really lovely up to date G.P can't really be expected to manage this. Perhaps take in some literature from good sources in with you on how PCOS untreated leads to diabetes, increased risk of heart disease etc, if your doctor does not otherwise think the disease is worth treating i.e for quality of life, sanity! Now I have been seeing a specialist on the NHS- hey at least we have one- and getting nowhere fast. or slowly actually. So it does seem very hit and miss. I am assuming you cannot afford to go private right now if you are at university? Now Glasgow Royal seems to research PCOS, at any rate they are interested in it, recognise the I.R link, are conducting Avandia trials at present, I think, and published an article on PCOS in the BMJ in 1998, which I'm sorry I haven't linked, but Belle published a load of links including this one in the last week. I think the post with all the links to articles was in reply to an 'Is there hope?' post. So obviously that's great if you live in or want to live in Glasgow...other than that I'm not sure..... good luck

At Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Suzy wrote: >
>hiya, this is probably more rant than anything else. I was told by my
>lovely doctor today that, a. I would only get treatment (of any kind)
>for my PCOS if I wanted to get pregrnant, I should lose weight (even
>though I tried ot ask for help with this, there was none, even though
>I'm craving carbs 24/7) and that my severe fatigue is possibly caused by
>my imagination or my beta blockers, so I have to choose crippling
>migrains or the fatigue and get on with my life. Neddless to say I'm
>now looking for a new doctor. The really sucky thing is, I've only got
>a few weeks left of my uni course, and there is nothing I can do, My dad
>is insisting that I move back in with him because I dont look after
>myself, and the life that I'm supposed to get back to has completely
>dissapeared after being constantly fatigued/migrains for a year. I
>don't know who they think they are... it was really quite unbelievable.
>So I'm now on the endless search for a good doctor, so if anyone has any
>ideas about doctors in Scotland... please e-mail me, I'm even getting
>to the stage where I'm prepared to move to a new area simply to get a
>good one.
>
>my sympathy to everyone else out there who has an ignorant, and
>unbelievably rude doctor.
>
>Suzanne

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